Wireless shuts down eth0

[Crutch]

I am using a prism2 chipset wireless card and wlan-ng with Redhat 8. It works great except for one little problem. Whenever I do:

# ifup wlan0

it brings up the wireless card fine, but in the process it kills my wired eth0. In order to get it back, I have to shut down wlan0 and bring back up eth0. I would like to have both active at the same time. Anyone seen this problem and know how to fix it?

[Mr.Wireless]

are you using DHCP or static IP's?....make sure that when you bring up the wireless it does not get assigned the same IP as the NIC....only suggestion I have at the moment

[Crutch]

well, that put me on the right track.

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 had a default setting for changing my Gateway to the wlan0 card. Go figure! Changed that an I'm back in business.

Now another ? Are there any utilities for quickly changing the settings for the wireless card? i.e. SSID, Channel, Mode, etc?